Elevating and carrying apparatus



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I ELBVATING AND CARRYING APPARATUS.

[ No. 285,873. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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I. BISHOP ELEVATING AND CARRYING APPARATUS. No. 285,873. Patentd Oct. 2, 1883.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,873, dated October 2, 188

Application filed July 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRA Brsi-ror, of Benicia, county of Solano, and State of California, have invented an Improvement in Elevating and Carrying Apparatus; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof. I

My invention relates to the class of elevating and carrying apparatus and to certain new and useful improvements therein. These improve ments consist in a traveling elevator-belt provided with peculiar hooks, in a carrier-belt above to receive the'load, and in the mechanism for driving the belts and for changing the direction of motion of the carrier-belt, as I shall explain.

The general object of my invention is to elevate material or articles from one point to another and to transport them to different places; but the particular use to which my apparatus is adapted is to raise material in sacks from the ground or lower floor of a warehouse to the upper floors, and to carry it along on said floors to points desired.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is aperspective view. Fig. 2, Sheet 2, is a plan.

A represents a building having alower floor, a, and an upper floor, a.

Mounted on the joists or beams of the upper floor is a shaft, B, carrying a pulley, Z). Over this pulley a belt, 0, passes down to a pulley, I), mounted below. This belt has secured to it at intervals the curved hooks E, which are adapted to hook under a sack, S, placed upon them, and hold it while being elevated by the Upon the upper floor, a, is constructed a guide or channel, F, made of two beams laid parallel and longitudinally. In this travels a belt, Gr, passing over a pulley, g, at one end, and over another, 9, at the other. W'ithin th e channel are horizontal rollers 9 upon which belt G travels and is sustained. This second or horizontal belt or carrier is in such relation to the elevator-belt that the hooks E of the latter, in turning at the top, are enabled to de posit the sack upon the carrier-belt, which, by means I shall now describe, will travel in either direction to carry the sack along the guide F to any point desired. The pulley g of the carrier-belt is upon a transverse shaft, H,

which carries at one end a fast pulley, h, and a loose pulley, h. It also carries another fast pulley, 7c, and another loose pulley, k.

I is the driving-shaft, carrying a broad-faced pulley, m, and another, m. From the pulley m to fast pulley h a straight belt, J, extends, and from the pulley m to loose pulley k a crossed belt, J ,eXtends. Motion is thus transmitted in one direction by the straight belt, the crossed belt being moved-over onto loose pulley 7c, and. in a reverse direction by the crossed belt when the straight belt is moved onto the loose pulley h and the cross-belt onto fast pulley k.

N is a short shaft, carrying a pulley, a, from which a belt, 0, extends to a pulley, 0, on the driving-shaft I. The shaft N also carries a large bevel-gear, P, which meshes with a pinion, on the end of shaft B, whereby motion is imparted to the elevator-belt O.

The utility of this apparatus in large Ware houses and grain establishments is obvious. A sack may be thrown onto the hooks as they come around, and it is instantly carried up and deposited on the horizontal carrierbelt, by which it is transported to any point.

It is obvious that I could arrange other carriers, traveling in various directions, which would receive the sacks from each other and take them along. The guide F holds the sacks to the places on the carrier-belt, and they slide on over it without any trouble.

Having thus described myinve11tion,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an elevating apparatus, the shaft B above, having pulley Z), the pulley D below, and the belt (3, passing over said pulleys, and having the curved hooks E, in combination with the means for driving said belt, consisting of the driving-shaft I, having pulley 0, the short shaft N, having pulley n, the intervening belt 0, and the bevel-gear l? and pinion p, all arranged and operating substantially as herein described.

2. In an elevating and carrying apparatus, the elevator-belt 0, having curved hooks E, for the purpose described, and means, substan tially as described, for driving said belt, in combination with the track or guide F above. having horizontal carrier-rollers g and the horizontal movable carrier-belt G therein and in relation to the elevator-belt, whereby the latter may deposit its load upon it, substantially as and for the purpose herein described. 3. In an elevating and carrying apparatus,

'5 the elevator-belt 0, having curved hooks E,

and means, substantially as described, for driving said belt, in combination with the horizontal carrier-belt G, passing over pulleys g g, and themeans for drivingsaid carrier in either 10 direction, consisting of the shaft H, the fast and loose pulleys h k h k, the driving-shaft I,

having pulleys m m, and the intervening straight belt J and crossed belt J, all arranged and operating substantially as herein de- Witnesses:

O. D. COLE, J. H. BLooD.

v IRA BISHOP. 

